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Centech Millenium Québecor Mitacs MEDTEQ+ Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQNT) Signature Biobank CAMH University of Toronto McGill University Montreal General Hospital Foundation Institut universitaire en santé mentale de MontréalNeoVentures Biotechnology
The problem

Psychiatry has no objective measure.

Cardiology has troponin. Oncology has biopsies. Psychiatry, responsible for some of the most consequential diagnoses in medicine, still runs on conversation, paper questionnaires and trial and error.

0%
of the world lives with a severe mental illness
~1 in 8 people alive
0%
of them are misdiagnosed
Wrong condition, wrong treatment
$0T
global burden of mental illness, every year
World Health Organization
0
objective blood tests in routine psychiatric practice
Until now
The cost

A misdiagnosis in psychiatry isn't a delay. It's years of the wrong medication, during the most treatable window a patient will ever have.

Our solution

From a molecular fingerprint to the right treatment.

Psychiatric illness rarely shows up as one abnormal molecule. It shows up as a pattern across many: a molecular fingerprint in the blood. We read that fingerprint from a single blood draw, first to tell conditions apart, and ultimately to recommend the treatment each patient is most likely to respond to.

01 Validated · 4 blinded studies

Tell conditions apart

Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, separated with 90%, 82% and 74% accuracy in blinded studies.

02 Our first product

Flag treatment resistance

Identify patients likely to be treatment resistant before months are lost on medications that won't work.

03 Next step

Predict response by drug class

Separate likely responders from likely non-responders to specific drug classes.

04 Where it leads

Recommend the right treatment

Match each patient's molecular fingerprint to the treatment they're most likely to respond to, so the first prescription is the right one.

How we read the fingerprint

Aptamer discovery and deep learning are the upstream tools we use to find and refine each signature. Detection happens in CLIA-certified laboratories today, with a point-of-care assay as the next step.

01
Upstream · finds the signature

Aptamer discovery

Instead of searching for one predefined biomarker, we screen billions of short, lab-engineered aptamers to find those that bind disease-specific signatures directly from blood, capturing proteins, metabolites and other circulating molecules antibodies miss.

02
Upstream · refines the signature

Deep learning signatures

Our models learn the multi-molecular patterns that separate one psychiatric condition from another and, trained on deeply phenotyped cohorts, predict how a patient is likely to respond to treatment. This is what turns raw molecular data into a clinical answer.

03
Detection · two routes

Lab test first, point-of-care next

Our first product measures the signature in CLIA-certified laboratories as a laboratory-developed test. Our graphene assay is being built to take the same measurement to the point-of-care.

Validated in 4 blinded studies · 1,550 patients 90%Schizophrenia 82%Bipolar disorder 74%Major depression See the results →
Our first product

A blood test for treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia is usually recognised only after at least two medications have failed, which can take years. Our first product is a blood test that tells treatment-resistant from non-treatment-resistant schizophrenia, so patients can reach the right treatment path sooner. It is offered as a laboratory-developed test (LDT), run in CLIA-certified laboratories.

Answers
Treatment-resistant or non-treatment-resistant schizophrenia
For
Patients already diagnosed with schizophrenia
Sample
A single blood draw
Format
Laboratory-developed test (LDT)
Runs in
CLIA-certified laboratories
The evidence behind it →
01 · CLINIC 02 · CLIA LAB 03 · CLINICIAN BLOOD DRAW DIAGNOSED PATIENT LDT · SIGNATURE ANALYSIS CLIA LDT ONECARE · LDT REPORT PATIENT SAMPLE Schizophrenia, diagnosed Single blood draw TREATMENT RESISTANCE TREATMENT-RESISTANT NON-TREATMENT-RESISTANT SENT TO THE ORDERING CLINICIAN
Illustrative · how the laboratory-developed test fits into care
Partnerships

One platform. Built with partners.

OneCare advances through partnerships. We bring the platform, the molecular signatures and the evidence behind them. Each partner brings the expertise to take them further, in clinical research, laboratory testing or drug development.

What OneCare brings

One platform, shared with every partner

  • Molecular signatures, found and refined with our aptamer and AI tools
  • Blinded, multicenter clinical evidence
  • Two detection routes: a laboratory-developed test first, point-of-care next
Clinical research

Clinical research partners

Hospitals, health systems and research networks that want to run prospective validation with us, in larger and more diverse cohorts, with longitudinal follow-up to establish predictive and prognostic value.

Laboratory testing

Laboratory partners

CLIA-certified laboratories that want to offer our test as a laboratory-developed test.

Drug development

Pharmaceutical partners

Drug developers that want to use our signatures to stratify psychiatric trial populations or to co-develop a companion diagnostic.

How we work with pharma →